Young Stars Will Save Rangers A Fortune

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Jan 29 2009

 

By Alan Marshall

 

 

DAVID MURRAY has declared Rangers' future depends on a crop of young guns who have been told to shoot for the top.

 

And last night the Ibrox club's chairman reeled off the names of those he believes could have the football world at their feet.

 

Murray was responding again to the "We Deserve Better" campaign and insisted Rangers are very much alive and kicking.

 

He stressed again he is the man to secure the club's financial future and that a posse of players are ready to spring from Murray Park.

 

Murray said: "At the agm in October Walter (Smith) made it clear the squad was too big and we didn't need 28 full-time pros and going forward he would run with 20 and younger players.

 

"It is no coincidence that players like Rory Loy, Dean Furman, Jordan McMillan and Andrew Shinnie are all out getting experience at the moment and we are hopeful they will come back ready to be part of the plans.

 

"We have John Fleck, Jamie Ness and Danny Wilson now knocking on the first-team door and they are undoubtedly part of our future.

 

"I did say we needed to prune the squad and essentially move six or seven players. However, I also said if there was an emergency we would bring in a player if that was what was required.

 

"Murray Park is now bearing fruit. People have complained about our youth system but it takes time to work.

 

"We have never had so many players out on loan and we have never had so many promising young players."

 

Murray also repeated his plea for the fans to stick together and underlined the need to resist those who are calling for activity in the transfer market, pointing out that money has to be found to cope with the problems caused by the economic downturn and the loss of Champions League money.

 

He said: "Clarity needs to be given to our supporters.

 

We are no different from any other business and our static overheads are too expensive.

 

We also have less revenue.

 

"You have to look at the future and analyse where additional revenues are going to come from outwith an extended run in Europe.

 

"We had to take these things into consideration because the club must be run professionally and financially correct.

 

"Yes, we could continue to spend money but we would develop more problems and the club would not be in a good condition. What we must not do is play into the hands of our competitors by scoring own goals in the media.

 

"We have to stick together and if we do we can come through this situation successfully. I am not immune to analysis or criticism but we are a great club with a great history and we must remain positive.

 

"This mischievous element we have is only going to destroy the things they supposedly care passionately about.

 

"But I genuinely believe the plans put in place when Walter came back have been knocked off course by a couple of factors in a very, very difficult economic climate that will become markedly worse before a recovery.

 

"We have a financial facility with the bank and we must work within that framework. I spoke to Walter and confirmed the need to bring in funds to compensate for the fact we are going to make a loss this year.

 

"However, if we don't sell any of our players during this transfer window then we don't. But I think most fans recognise overheads are too high for our income.

 

"It is easy to be critical but I have a responsibility to run the business properly and these people are not offering any solutions."

 

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Not as long as WS remains in charge.

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"We are also seeing encouraging signs that our Youth Development strategy is starting to take effect and your Board and the Manager are committed to giving youth an opportunity to progress. I am hopeful that players such as Ross McCormack and Charlie Adam will feature regularly in our first team squad and join the likes of Alan Hutton, Chris Burke and others who have already progressed through the ranks."

 

David Murray 31/8/05.

 

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[calscot 0]

How are we saving a fortune when we've spend 2M on Naismith, 2M on Whittaker, 2.4M on Edu, 3.5M on Lafferty? None of them are first team regulars and cost almost 10M.

 

Maybe it's balanced by 0.3M for McLean, 9M for Hutton, 0.1M for McCormack and 0.3M for Burke but that's still not saving any money.

 

When will SDM start making sense? Almost everything he says now is pretty much bullshit.

 

When selling Boyd he even said that we were not a selling club as we'd spent 10.5M and only brought in 7.5M. The fact that the Boyd sale would mean a net income totally elluded him when using his own figures.

Edited January 29, 2009 by calscot

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Cal did we get a �£300,000 fee for Burke? Thought it was a freebie.